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A+ tips for collaboration
Michelle Burrows, director of North Carolina A+ Schools, offers suggestions for successful collaboration.
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The art of collaboration and shared leadership at A+ Schools
A+ Schools incorporate the arts into everyday learning. The result is a student body that is more engaged and faculty and staff that are working together as never before.
Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore: Theology, religious communities and practice
New trends in theological education break down conventional boundaries between the academy and congregational life, says an expert in pastoral theology.
The grace in how often Sunday comes around
We only get good at something when we practice it -- a lot. Are our organizations set up to encourage learning on the job?
Scholarship, leadership, citizenship
A university in Ghana equips its students to be innovators in their fields through a dual focus on “hard skills” and liberal arts that foster creativity and civic engagement. Does your institution help employees connect their work to the good of society as a whole?
Laurent Dubois: We had the idea, and we did it
The Haiti Lab is a three-year experiment in undergraduate education that uses the model of a research laboratory to explore questions in the humanities.
Sarah Coakley: Ministry is not easier than theology
A renowned theologian who also is an ordained priest argues that divinity schools should integrate practical and systematic theology to benefit both disciplines and better prepare students for ministry.
Writing like a swimmer
Olympic swimmers hone their craft through repetition and discipline. So do writing students at a Staten Island high school.
Michael Jinkins: They're called students, not customers
Theological education isn’t about the transmission of information for which a customer pays but the transformation of people. And transformation is often an uncomfortable process.
Five books you didn't read in seminary
Books to spark your imagination for work and ministry that weren’t on your Christian Theology 101 syllabus.